Direction

 What makes a “spiritual director?”  I think it takes two things, neither of which require an elaborate and expensive diploma.  First, your life is unitive.  You don’t have a “spiritual life,” you have a life that is heart connected to everything you do.  Second, someone asks you for guidance and trusts you.  You don’t get heart connected simply by doing something, like meditation for an hour a day.  What of the twenty three other hours?  When someone says,”I am spiritual” it most often is like someone who says they are a swimmer.  You swim for an hour and it has little to do with the rest of your day.  Swimming does not infiltrate your every action.  There is no such thing as a spiritual life.  There is only life and for most of us it is pretty noisy and divided and ego centered.  With enough fear, insecurity and anxiety to exhaust us every waking day.  If you care what toothpaste you use, are you really free?  I prefer Colgate Total!